TRUE NATURE OF A JACOBIN WAR. NATIONAL DIGNITY. PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT RELATIVE. DECLARATION OF 1793. MORAL DIET. KING WILLIAM'S POLICY. DISTEMPER OF REMEDY. WAR AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE. FALSE POLICY IN OUR FRENCH WAR. MORAL ESSENCE MAKES A NATION. PUBLIC SPIRIT. PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN STATES. PETTY INTERESTS. PIUS VII. EXTINCTION OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM. WALPOLE AND HIS POLICY. POLITICAL PEACE. PUBLIC LOANS. HISTORICAL STRICTURES. CONSTITUTION NOT THE PEOPLE'S SLAVE. MODERN "LIGHTS." REPUBLICS IN THE ABSTRACT. AN ENGLISH MONARCH. PHYSIOGNOMY. THE EYE. ABOLITION AND USE OF PARLIAMENTS. CROMWELL AND HIS CONTRASTS. DELICACY. CONFISCATION AND CURRENCY. "OMNIPOTENCE OF CHURCH PLUNDER." UGLINESS. GRACE. ELEGANCE AND SPECIOUSNESS. THE BEAUTIFUL IN FEELING. THE BEAUTIFUL IN SOUNDS. BRITISH CHURCH. INDEX. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE In Twelve Volumes Volume The First CONTENTS OF VOL. I. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER, PREFIXED TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND OCTAVO EDITION A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: OR, A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY PREFACE A LETTER TO LORD **** A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL; WITH AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERNING TASTE PREFACE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V APPENDIX A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, INTITULED, "THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION" THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS